Royal Trouble
4.3
5
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23
Feisty, entertaining, fun
A feisty princess, a devil-may-care prince, and a desire to escape from being held prisoner. Great artwork and storyline. The hidden objects are really puzzles to help the bickering duo escape from various rooms and situations. I appreciated the hints in the diary, which started off vague and got more and more explicit as I needed them. Lighthearted, entertaining, and good fun.
December 9, 2011
Lovely, humorous adventure game!
I fell in love with this game from the beginning when you're trying to escape from a dungeon and have to assemble a makeshift bomb to blow up the door... only to find out afterwards that the door was actually open!
There's humour like this throughout the game, and the two protagonists Loreen and Nathaniel (who you take turns playing) have an excellent bickering/flirting relationship much like Guybrush Threepwood and Elaine Marley from the Monkey Island adventure games.
Graphics were nice, with an attractive soft glow, but the music was repetitive/unexceptional. There were some interesting puzzles, but most were of average difficulty. This is an adventure game, not a hidden object game (aside from 1 or 2 scenes), and as such it will be shorter just because hunting for hidden objects is a time killer, but it's a good length for an adventure game.
November 30, 2011
Still Smiling!
This game is so cute and so much fun to play. The dialog makes me laugh and smile. I would like to find more games like this to play. I have gotten a little tired of the usual hidden object games. I enjoy games that require you to use several items together to solve the puzzles.
January 22, 2012
Fun but Frustrating
For me, this game was too short. I think it is because I skipped most of the puzzles because many of them were of the putzy unlock directional kinds that I really dislike. One or two are fine, but do not fill the entire game with them, please, especially when there is little direction and no hint button during the puzzle. You either do the puzzle or you skip it.
The scene puzzles where the characters are trying to find the things they need to advance the story are well done, with the weakness being you usually have to click on everything in the room in order to find the items. If you are experienced with games like this, you would be able to use that experience to know what to click on and save you some mouse clicking time.
There are no sparkles in this game, and the hint book during searching puzzles gives some direction, but not a lot. The game does require thought which is a strength.
Other strengths include very attractive graphics, appropriate music that is well played in the background, and fun spunky characters.
There needs to be more mystery and story, fewer putzy, "turn the object in the right direction" puzzles that take forever and drove me to the skip button, and more adventure style puzzles that advance the story.
Overall, this was another one of those games that felt like a prequel ad teaser for more to come. Fun, short, romp with cute characters and nice graphics. I recommend this game if you like directional object puzzles and need a short game for a rainy afternoon.
February 7, 2012
Such a cute game!
This game is really sweet and funny. It's a little short, and there were a few little glitchy parts, but I enjoyed it very much! It's really lighthearted which is a nice break from all the spooky games we usually play. lol
November 26, 2011
Royal Trouble royal treat
This game is a little easier than the normal BigFish games, but the comedy and laid-back feel to it is a welcome relief and I enjoy playing it, knowing that I probably won't need to use the help or go online for a walkthru!
Not the best game out there, but nice for an interlude...
January 27, 2012
Nice short adventure game
This game only took me a few hours to complete which was a shame and the reason I gave it a low challenge level. Maybe this would make it too easy/short for other gamers??? I found the puzzles generally easy, but it was a good game to pick up and play for a short spell. I enjoyed the story which moved along well and was interesting, the characters were likable and the graphics were good
February 25, 2012
Make love, not war?
A young prince and young princess of marrying age are locked up in the dungeon on a strange island. They want to escape but they do not seem to care for each other. Helping eachother seems a foreign concept. Hence the trouble with royals causes trouble for royals.
This is a charming, clever, colorful, delightful, humorous gem of a game. A delightful romp, if a bit short.
January 19, 2012
what a romp :D
A thoroughly delightful game ... hopefully more to come; could 2 stubborn people get into more strife than these two? I don't think so .... but maybe they could, I just hope I'm around to see it!
Graphics are very good, clean & crisp; VO is wry; characters' conversations are droll (& very accurate!); I found the music set on low sort of settled nicely in the background; puzzles are mdm lvl; very little to-ing & fro-ing to "build" needed items.
Only played the 1hr demo so far, but will definitely be buying it.
Bouquets to BF for this one ;)
March 15, 2012
Who Knew Trouble Could Be So Much Fun !
I loved this game it was so fun and full of humor. You get to play as two characters who are trying to escape from a kidnapper and both start out hating each other but realize they have to work together in order to escape the castle. There are all kinds of little puzzles and quest's you have to do for other people in order to get them to help you. My only complaint is that the game is way too short but still worth it as it is just so cute and fun. The graphics are very nice and crisp everything is easy to see and the hint system is very generous. I do hope there will be another chapter to this one. Awesome game thank you Orchid games and Big Fish for a whole lot of Royal Fun !
February 22, 2012